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Closely allied to both art and craftsmanship, as photography now is, the work of Miss Frances Allen and Miss Mary Allen...would be equally at home in this room or next door to the small gallery of paintings which Mr. Tack has hung in his studio. The Misses Allen use their camera in the same spirit with which a painter uses his brush, and their sense of composition, of the dramatic moment, is as eminent a qualification for their art as for his.
"1901 Old Home Week: Exhibition of the Arts and Crafts in the Martha Pratt Memorial" History and Proceedings of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, volume IV, p. 277.